Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to himself at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | The elder Blackwell 's religious commitment was at least as strong as his son 's ; he seems to have died in some poverty , having previously calculated the debts owing to himself at nearly £36,000 ( Bodleian MS Rawl . |
| 3 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 4 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 5 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 6 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |